Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. The Alliance coordinates with regional organizations to sponsor awards programs for high school students who have special proficiencies in the visual or literary arts. Howard Rothman serves on its Board of Directors. Paul Connuck and Bonnie Podolsky advised the Alliance in connection with certain grant agreements between the Alliance and third party donors.

American Friends of the Israel Museum. The American Friends of the Israel Museum supports the Israel Museum, the national museum of Israel located in Jerusalem, by raising endowment and operating funds and securing donations and loans of major works of art to the Museum. Sandy Lindenbaum serves as General Counsel and Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Museum. He handles all its corporate and tax matters, employment agreements, and donations and legacies. In 2006, Abe Safdie also advised on corporate matters, and Jon Ziefert prepared and negotiated an architectural services agreement for a renovation project.

American Friends of Maestro. American Friends of Maestro, Inc. awards grants to organizations that promote the advancement of musical and other cultural and artistic values of Israeli society. Sidney Friedman represented the organization in connection with its registration with various states.

Cinereach. Cinereach is a new foundation that supports filmmakers and organizations that produce socially beneficial films or use films for socially worthy ends. Bruce Rabb is on the Board and has been working with the staff to develop appropriate grantmaking processes.

City Parks Foundation. The City Parks Foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organization to encourage community development of parks and to offer programming, such as arts, sports, and various educational programs in over 700 parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Michael Maoz and Erica Klein have assisted the Foundation with securing trademark registrations for its trademarks, which include IT'S MY PARK! DAY and CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE and in negotiating trademark license agreements with third-parties.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts. Ifetayo Cultural Arts is a nonprofit organization that uses arts and culture as a means to heal and develop communities of the African Diaspora. Paul Connuck, Matthew Abbott, and then-summer associate Jacqueline Grant assisted the group with drafting a privacy policy for its website.

INSPIRIT. Barry Herzog, David Zlotchew, and Sarah Gleit assisted INSPIRIT, a dance company, in incorporating as a New York not-for-profit corporation and in obtaining tax-exempt status. INSPIRIT is a Bronx-based dance company formed, among other things, to provide a forum for collaboration among emerging African-American female artists and choreographers and to expand the audience for the art of contemporary dance in communities where there is limited access to this type of art form.

The Judd Foundation. Paul Selver advised the foundation on zoning compliance issues related to the establishment of a museum for Donald Judd's work at his former studio on Spring Street in Manhattan.

New York Foundation for the Arts. The New York Foundation for the Arts supports individual artists, advances their efforts to develop and create artworks, and provides the public with opportunities to experience and understand their work by offering financial and informational assistance to artists and organizations that directly serve artists. Kevin Leblang and Steven Knecht provided legal advice in connection with employment matters.

White Ironstone China Association. Helayne Stoopack and Mike Seaton represented the White Ironstone China Association, Inc., an antique collectors organization chaired by Tom Moreland, in its successful application to the IRS for IRC section 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.

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